| Type: | Women |
| Northern Ireland | |
| Badge Size: | 200px |
| Association: | Irish Football Association (IFA) |
| Confederation: | UEFA (Europe) |
| Coach: | Tanya Oxtoby |
| Captain: | Marissa Callaghan |
| Most Caps: | Julie Nelson (125) |
| Top Scorer: | Rachel Furness (38) |
| Fifa Trigramme: | NIR |
| 1St Ranking Date: | July 2003 --> |
| Fifa Max: | 45 |
| Fifa Max Date: | March – June 2023; August 2024 |
| Fifa Min: | 85 |
| Fifa Min Date: | June 2005 |
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| First Game: | (Dublin, Republic of Ireland; 30 June 1973) |
| Largest Win: | 0–11 (Skopje, North Macedonia; 25 November 2021) |
| Largest Loss: | 11–1 (Clydebank, Scotland, 23 November 1974) 10–0 (Blackburn, England, 16 March 1986) |
| Regional Name: | European Championship |
| Regional Cup Apps: | 1 |
| Regional Cup First: | 2022 |
| Regional Cup Best: | Group stage (2022) |
The Northern Ireland women's national football team represents Northern Ireland in international women's football. Although most national football teams represent a sovereign state, FIFA statutes permit Northern Ireland as a member of the United Kingdom's Home Nations to maintain its own national side that competes in all major tournaments, with the exception of the Women's Olympic Football Tournament. The team were the lowest UEFA-ranked team (27th)[1] to qualify for the European Championships Finals in England in 2022.
In September 2021 it was announced that the senior women's team would be adopting a full-time professional set up ahead of Euro 2022.[2]
See also: FIFA International Match Calendar.
The following is a list of matches in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.
Tanya Oxtoby (2023–)[6]INJ
Notes:
| Rank | Name | Career | width=50 | Caps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2004– | 126 | ||
| 2 | Ashley Hutton | 2005– | 114 | |
| 3 | Sarah McFadden | 2005– | 104 | |
| 4 | Rachel Furness | 2005– | 95 | |
| 5 | Demi Vance | 2009– | 90 | |
| 6 | Marissa Callaghan | 2010– | 86 | |
| 7 | Nadene Caldwell | 2009– | 78 | |
| Simone Magill | 2010– | |||
| 9 | Kirsty McGuinness | 2010– | 57 | |
| 10 | Lauren Wade | 2015– | 54 |
| Rank | Name | Career | width=50 | Caps | width=50 | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rachel Furness | alignleft | 2005– | 95 | 38 | |
| 2 | Simone Magill | alignleft | 2010– | 78 | 24 | |
| 3 | Kirsty McGuinness | alignleft | 2010– | 57 | 14 | |
| 4 | Marissa Callaghan | alignleft | 2010– | 86 | 9 | |
| Ashley Hutton | alignleft | 2005– | 114 | |||
| Sarah McFadden | alignleft | 2005– | 104 | |||
| Julie Nelson | alignleft | 2004– | 126 | |||
| Lauren Wade | alignleft | 2015– | 54 | |||
| 9 | Caragh Hamilton | 2012– | 38 | 6 | ||
| 10 | Demi Vance | alignleft | 2009– | 90 | 4 |
Simone Magill holds the world record for the fastest international goal in women's football. Previously, US forward Alex Morgan had held the record at twelve seconds. Magill achieved an eleven-second goal against Georgia at the start of a European Qualifying match on 3 June 2016. The goal marks the fastest ever international goal by any national Northern Irish team – male or female.[8]
| FIFA Women's World Cup record | Qualification record | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | GP | W | D* | L | GF | GA | GD | GP | W | D* | L | GF | GA | GD | |||
 1991 | Did not qualify | UEFA EURO 1991 | ||||||||||||||||
 1995 | Did not enter | UEFA EURO 1995 | ||||||||||||||||
 1999 | Did not enter | |||||||||||||||||
| 2003 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Did not qualify | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | −4 | ||||||||||
 2011 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 16 | −8 | |||||||||||
 2015 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 19 | −16 | |||||||||||
 2019 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 27 | −23 | |||||||||||
 2023 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 36 | 16 | +20 | |||||||||||
 2027 | To be determined | To be determined | ||||||||||||||||
| Total | 0/10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 44 | 13 | 11 | 23 | 58 | 89 | −31 | |||
| UEFA Women's Championship record | Qualifying record | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | GP | W | D* | L | GF | GA | GP | W | D* | L | GF | GA | |
  1984 | Did not qualify | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 21 | |||||||
| 1987 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 35 | ||||||||
| 1989 | Did not enter | Did not enter | ||||||||||||
| 1991 | Did not qualify | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 21 | |||||||
| 1993 | Did not enter | Did not enter | ||||||||||||
| 1995 | ||||||||||||||
| 1997 | ||||||||||||||
| 2001 | ||||||||||||||
| 2005 | ||||||||||||||
 2009 | Did not qualify | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 28 | |||||||
| 2013 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 15 | ||||||||
| 2017 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 22 | ||||||||
| 2022 | Group stage | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 18 | |
| 2025 | To be determined | To be determined | ||||||||||||
| Total | 1/13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 55 | 13 | 6 | 36 | 62 | 160 | |
| UEFA Women's Nations League record | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Division | Group | width=28 | width=28 | width=28 | width=28 | width=28 | width=28 | width=28 | width=35 | width=28 | |||||||||
| 2023–24 | B | 1 | 3rd | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 13 | - | 25th | |||||||||
| 2025–26 | B | To be determined | ||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 18th | |||||||||||||||||||